{"id":108686,"date":"2020-06-14T23:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tesla-roadster-could-hit-0-60-mph-in-1-1-sec-with-spacex-thrusters"},"modified":"2020-06-14T23:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:02:32","slug":"tesla-roadster-could-hit-0-60-mph-in-1-1-sec-with-spacex-thrusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tesla-roadster-could-hit-0-60-mph-in-1-1-sec-with-spacex-thrusters","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Roadster could hit 0\u201360 mph in 1.1 sec with SpaceX thrusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-roadster-could-hit-0-60-mph-in-1-1-sec-with-spacex-thrusters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that Tesla\u2019s next-gen Roadster is going to be lightning-quick, with a claimed 0\u201360 mph time of 1.9 seconds for the base model. However, the addition of SpaceX cold-gas thrusters that will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/tesla-roadster-spacex-package-back-to-the-future-time-machine-pictures\/\">hidden behind the car\u2019s license plate<\/a> could drop Roadster\u2019s 0\u201360 mph time to a dizzying 1.1 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UClqhvGmHcvWL9w3R48t9QXQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Engineering Explained<\/em><\/a> used some of Isaac Newton\u2019s basic physics principles to determine that the Roadster could become one of the quickest cars in the world. By plugging in existing information that CEO Elon Musk has revealed about Tesla\u2019s next-gen Roadster, host Jason Fenske determined that the vehicle will weigh roughly 2000 kg (4,400 lbs), which backs into acceleration g-forces of approximately 1.44 G\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no surprise that Tesla\u2019s next-gen Roadster is going to be lightning-quick, with a claimed 0\u201360 mph time of 1.9 seconds for the base model. However, the addition of SpaceX cold-gas thrusters that will be hidden behind the car\u2019s license plate could drop Roadster\u2019s 0\u201360 mph time to a dizzying 1.1 seconds. YouTube channel Engineering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,219,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-physics","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}